It’s the things that do not have direct impact on my current life that I need insight on how to find motivation on. The example from the article of learning la

It’s the things that do not have direct impact on my current life that I need insight on how to find motivation on. The example from the article of learning languages comes to mind. Nearly impossible when at home in the US, but amazingly easy when I know I’m going somewhere (or even on the train or plane on the way there - the vocab and sentences just get uploaded). Anyone have insight on hacking this internal motivational learning system for more abstract goals? It seems so easy for some, but for me, I’m like the author when there is direct impact on my daily life, it’s easy to learn but the abstract goals are somehow so much harder. As people on hacker news are obviously really great learners, I hope some of you can share your approaches to this problem.